Turgid Sturgeon

It really does sound amazing. Haven’t tinkered with it enough to adopt it fully, but I’m willing to experiment!

If you go the route of downloading music or ripping from CDs, you absolutely do not need to stick with the over-inflated FLAC format. The files are absolutely massive, and you could easily convert them down to much smaller 192kbps MP3 (or AAC which is even better) and not notice any difference in sound quality. FLAC is for audio purists, and storage prices these days don’t really justify it in my opinion.

As to where to buy music, try DRM-free sources like Bandcamp or even Amazon MP3. If you don’t want to pay for it, learn to use BitTorrent or even Usenet…both while using a good VPN, natch! You can even download from YouTube Music if you have the right tool (though it’ll probably come in Opus format which is fine if your player can handle it).

Oh, it’s in Texas? Then who cares?

July 18 in certain states per the official website: https://www.humansfirst.com/july-18-datacenters

With some Laurie Anderson hair!

The “end times” have been coming for 2,000 years now. You’d think after the first 500 or so they would have started reevaluating their prophecies… But religion is a helluva drug.

Yikes… I’m definitely not turning the wifi back on after reading that!

I don’t think internet was required for setup, but in each case I did want to get the latest firmware in case there were fixes to the UI or whatever. But I never use the built-in apps or anything, I have a media box for that stuff.

I had a 65" Hisense TV for just over a year, and a firmware update bricked it. It was stone dead, and Hisense wouldn’t even try to repair it. So I spent a little extra money and got a Samsung instead. And once it was set up, I turned off its wifi…just in case.

Hisense can eat a bag o’ dicks.

Dude looks a bit like Bill Murray.

Agreed… it took me a while to warm up to new new show while they figured out what they were doing. After a few months I began to enjoy it for what it was… It could never touch the original, but it had some of that same spirit of ridiculousness. The 2nd season was better, but that’s all we got. Hardwick seriously needs to start up @m again!

If you know how to use BitTorrent, the entire show is out there for grabs!

I had every single episode a few years ago, took me ages to track them all down. Then I lost them all during a storage upgrade… But when the new After Midnight show started up, some kind soul uploaded a torrent of the entire @midnight archive.👍

They call him Dr. Worm…

I automatically heard that headline in Corvo’s voice before even realizing it.

Sounds like you’re on the right track to me! I don’t have a nearby creek/river but I do have about 40 gallons of water in 5 gallon containers. It’s tapwater which should be fine since it’s been treated, but I can always filter or whatever if needed. Otherwise I just swap it out a couple times a year for “fresh” tapwater.

It won’t be worth much unless you have enough clean water stored up to be able to use it…

(during a disaster where water is cut off, obviously! I once made the mistake of buying too much of this kind of thing and not thinking about the water until much later.)

Mmmm… He’s headed up to Victoria next month, maybe he’ll get lucky there if I put him on the hunt!

Good point! And I’m one of those weirdos who likes ketchup on just about anything, so… at match made in heaven :)

My husband brought some of these back from Canada last year and they were shockingly good.